• Tony (5/5) May 07 2006 What support does D provide for runtime code generation?
• dennis luehring (4/9) May 07 2006 no support - i hope D will get support for compiletime generators (and
• Walter Bright (4/7) May 07 2006 You can use the dscript engine, www.digitalmars.com/dscript, to do this

"Tony" <ignorethis nowhere.com> writes:

What support does D provide for runtime code generation?

That is, if I wrote an application that responded to user input by 
generating code, what aspects of D would make this easier?

Tony
Melbourne, Australia 

dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> writes:

Tony schrieb:
 What support does D provide for runtime code generation?

no support - i hope D will get support for compiletime generators (and 
compiletime reflection system)

 That is, if I wrote an application that responded to user input by 
 generating code, what aspects of D would make this easier?

more detailed example?

 Tony
 Melbourne, Australia 

Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

Tony wrote:
 What support does D provide for runtime code generation?

None.

 That is, if I wrote an application that responded to user input by 
 generating code, what aspects of D would make this easier?

You can use the dscript engine, www.digitalmars.com/dscript, to do this 
(dscript is a javascript interpreter).